Hakan Tuncer

7 Common Scrum Myths

Here’s a list of Scrum myths that I often encounter as a professional software developer.

Software Development Processes: Less is More

While simple & lean processes can be empowering for individuals and interactions, excessive processes do the opposite. Having too much process very often creates more problems than it claims to solve.

Psychology

Love the Journey. Not the Destination

There is this one beautiful idea that I came across in a few books I've read. Each time it appears in a slightly different shape or form but the gist of it is the same. It's a powerful perspective to have in life and it deviates from a more traditional

Azure

API Versioning with Swagger, Azure API Management Services and ASP.NET Core - A Frictionless DevOps Flow

In the second and last part of this series, I'll talk about a frictionless developer experience for versioning .NET APIs and automatically publishing those versions to Azure API Management Services.

Azure

API Versioning with Swagger, Azure API Manager and ASP.NET Core - An Introduction

API versioning has no “right way” [https://blog.apisyouwonthate.com/api-versioning-has-no-right-way-f3c75457c0b7] and I am fairly convinced that API evolution [https://blog.goodapi.co/api-change-management-2fe5bba32e9b] is usually a better option for both API authors and clients of those APIs. Evolving APIs smoothly without breaking any existing clients and making it easy

Angular

Continuous Deployment with Angular CLI, Docker, Travis CI and Azure

These days when I start writing code for a new project, I feel a sense of urgency to create an end to end development workflow as soon as possible. I love the phrase “walking skeleton [http://alistair.cockburn.us/Walking+skeleton]”. So think of this end to end workflow as

CircleCi

Continuous Deployment with Node.js, DynamoDB, AWS Elastic Beanstalk and CircleCI

In this post, I'm taking a deep dive into setting up a continuous delivery pipeline using CircleCI.

architecture

Setting up Continuous Delivery for a Node.js REST API - Part 2

A few months back I decided to convert my hobby project - Hackathon Planner API - from pure Javascript to TypeScript. This time I sat down to build an Automated Test Suite and a Continuous Delivery pipeline around it.

architecture

Setting up Continuous Delivery for a Node.js REST API - Part 1

A few months back I decided to convert my hobby project - Hackathon Planner API - from pure Javascript to TypeScript. This time I sat down to build an Automated Test Suite and a Continuous Delivery pipeline around it.

typescript

5 Quirks of Converting a Node.js Express API to TypeScript

TypeScript language and the tooling around it can help all sizeable javascript projects to become more maintainable.

NodeJS

Creating an online quiz game using Node.js, Hyperdev, PlayStation Buzz controllers, Raspberry PI and Nfield

I've been writing about hackathons and the planner application I've been busy with for a while now. The news is that Hackathon Planner [https://github.com/hakant/HackathonPlanner] is live and used during the last hackathon event on 25 August 2016 at NIPO Software [http://niposoftware.com/]. 36 hackathon ideas

Conferences

After NDC Oslo 2016

In my previous post [https://www.hakantuncer.com/blog/2016/06/01/ndc-oslo-2016/] I'd talked about my plans in NDC Oslo, including all the sessions and the 2-day workshop I was planning to attend. It's been a great experience. I came back with good memories and learned a few things

Conferences

NDC Oslo 2016

It's time for NDC Oslo again - happening between 6-10 June 2016. I'm excited to be going there once again this year. First two days I'll be taking a workshop on the topic of microservice development (with examples in NServiceBus) [http://ndcoslo.com/workshop/microservice-development-with-examples-in-nservicebus/] . Originally the speaker was Udi

Hackathon

Implementing an App Walkthrough

I think most professionals who design product interfaces (both physical or software interfaces) will agree that simplicity and discoverability of an interface is a big winning factor. Simple and discoverable interfaces are usually self explanatory and for this very reason they tend to provide great user experiences. On the other

Hackathon

Hackathon Planner & My experience with Aurelia so far

~2 months ago I wrote about Hackathon Planner [https://www.hakantuncer.com/blog/2016/01/30/hackathon-planner-for-nipo-software/] and hustled the idea as a candidate project for the next hackathon at NIPO Software. Then the hackathon day arrived. We formed a team of 6 and spent a day working on it.

Hackathon

Hackathon Planner for { NIPO Software }

I learn best by practicing. When I only read (i.e no practicing, no note taking), I almost completely forget what I learned after a month or two. I think most people are wired this way. Think about a book you read 6 months ago and see how much of

Psychology

Flow and Happiness

Every now and then I read about rich people talking about the correlation between money, happiness and self fulfillment. More often than not, it's the lack of correlation that they talk about. There's no doubt that one has to have access to a certain level of income to satisfy the

Workshop

Zen of Architecture

I was at DevIntersection Conference [https://www.hakantuncer.com/blog/2015/05/02/devintersection-and-anglebrackets-in-phoenix/] in Phoenix around mid May 2015. Apart from the regular conference schedule, I took a few interesting workshops one of which was "Zen of Architecture" by Juval Lowy [http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/741]. As

Conferences

DevIntersection & AngleBrackets in Phoenix

It's conference season again! Developers from NIPO Software [http://www.niposoftware.com/] were in Build 2014 [http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014] and NDC Oslo 2014 [http://www.ndcoslo.com] last year. This year we'll be at NDC Oslo [http://www.ndcoslo.com] again but this time I myself

dotnet

Notes on Finalization and Disposition in .NET

Have you ever thought why disposition pattern is designed the way it is? I hadn't. Sometimes we learn things along the way and never question its basics or roots again. We do it that way because we're told so or because it just worked so far and we never looked

MarketResearch

Kiwi - Updates & First demo

It's been more than a month since I first wrote about Kiwi. In that post [https://www.hakantuncer.com/2014/11/01/building-kiwi/] I had a "demo" section where I wrote: > I was planning to create a screencast to demonstrate how Kiwi works and what it does but didn't get

Startup

Building Kiwi

I think it was sometime around February 2014 when Deniz Orsel, my colleague from NIPO Software [http://www.niposoftware.com/], came to me and said "I need you to build something...". Later it became apparent that he also already had discussed his idea with Serif Ozcan [https://twitter.com/serifozcan]

Redis

Playing around with Redis & SignalR

A good friend of mine contacted me a couple of weeks ago and asked if I would accept a freelancing project. Around research and prototyping. Possibly leading to a new architecture for their existing product. The existing architecture didn't allow any further room for the new requirements they had -

Conferences

After NDC Oslo 2014

It's over. I'm back in Amsterdam after an awesome week in Oslo. Great sessions, lots of smart people, delicious food and very good coffee. Inspirations everywhere. I didn't know Norwegians were this much into coffee drinking. I can easily say that I didn't drink a single cup of bad coffee

Conferences

NDC Oslo 2014

Yes! It's happening. We will be at NDC Oslo 2014 [http://www.ndcoslo.com/] with 3 developers from NIPO Software [http://www.niposoftware.com/]. Bjorn Coltof [https://twitter.com/bjorn_coltof], Serif Ozcan [https://twitter.com/serifozcan] and I are going to be there between 2-6th of June. We'll be